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*Grammar*

➖Verbs often confused➖

• Shall and May.


Distinguish between:

(a) May I shut the door? and (b) Shall I shut the door?

May I shut the door? Means that I wish the door closed and I ask your permission to shut it.
Shall I open the door? Means that I want to know whether you wish the door closed.

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⚡Common mistakes

• suffer from
• recover from
• distinct from
• focus on
• abstain from
• get rid of
• search for
• accustomed to
• wait for
• peer at
• lead to
• convert to
• approve of
• cope with
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*Grammar*


➖Verbs often confused➖

Sit and Seat.

(a) Sit
✖️Don't say: We seat at a desk to write a letter.
✔️Say: We sit at a desk to write a letter.

(b) Seat
✖️Don't say: He sat the passengers one by one.
✔️Say: He seated the passengers one by one.

Use "sit" as an intransitive verb. "Seat" is a transitive verb and requires an object. Very often the object of "seat" is a reflexive pronoun: He seated himself near the fire. The principal parts of the two verbs are: sit, sat, sat, and seat, seated, seated.

Note: Don't confuse "sit" with "set", which usually means: to place. Common idioms with "set": to set the table, to set on fire, to set off (or out), to set a trap, to set a clock, to set a price, to set your heart on, to set free, to set an example, to set a broken bone, to set to work (= to start work).


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🏛 SUPERB GRAMMAR


[ ’ ] APOSTROPHE - Use to show possession, to construct contractions and to make odd plurals

[ & ] AMPERSAND - Use to represent the word "and".

[ , ] COMMA - Use mainly to indicate a brief pause.

[ : ] COLON - Use after a complete statement to introduce a series of items.

[ ... ] ELLIPSIS - Use to indicate a pause or a trailing off of thought.

[ . ] PERIOD - Use at the end of a complete dedarative sentence.

[ - ] DASH - Use to emphasize words or phrases and to summarize ideas.

[ ! ] EXCLAMATION MARK - Use after an interjection or to indicate strong feelings.

[ " " ] QUOTATION MARKS - Use to set off speech a quotation, a phrase
or a word.

[ ( ) ] PARENTHESIS - Use to set off
additional information.

[ ? ] QUESTION MARK - Use to indicate a direct query

[ ; ] SEMICOLON - Use to link two independent clauses that are closely related.
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🏛 SUPERB GRAMMAR


📌Descriptive words

❗LARGE
• big
• colossal
• enormous
• gigantic
• huge
• massive
• substantial
• significant
• tremendous

❗SMALL
• diminutive
• little
• miniature
• minute
• petite
• teeny
• tiny
• wee
• slight
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☘Other ways to say "BAD"

•awful
•naughty
•nasty
•unpleasant
•disagreeable
•terrible
•rotten
•mean
•dreadful
•wicked
•lousy
•wretched


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*Using the wrong prepositions and corrections for them:*

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❌DON'T SAY: Maria is leaving to Italy soon.
✅SAY: Maria is leaving for Italy soon.

#Tip: Always use 'leave for a place', not 'to a place'.

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❌DON'T SAY: I am good in English.
✅SAY: I am good at English.

#Tip: Always use 'good at', not 'good in'

▪️Also use 'at' after bad, clever, quick, slow.
⚠️But 'in' is used after 'weak'
❗️Example : My friend is weak in grammar.

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❌ DON’T SAY: She is not interested for her work.
✅ SAY: She is not interested in her work.

#Tip: Always use ‘Interested in’, not ‘for’.
▪️Also “take an interest in”:
❗️Example: She takes a great interest in music.

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*Learning new vocabulary is essential to improving your English skills. Today, we want to share 38 other ways to say "I don’t know" with you.*

So, What can I say instead of “I don’t know”? 🤔⤵️

⚪️I can’t remember off the top of my head.
🔴I’ll get back to you on that.
🔵I don’t have that information here right now.
⚪️I don’t know anything about…
🔴I have no clue/idea.
🔵I am not the best person to answer that.
⚪️I haven’t got the faintest idea.
🔴I haven’t had time to think that through yet.
🔵I haven’t looked at that yet.
🔴I want to be sure and give you the correct information. Let me check.
🔵Who knows?
⚪️I’ll find out and let you know.
🔴I’ll get back to you on that one.
🔵I’m going to investigate that further.
⚪️I’m not 100% sure on that.
🔴I’m not sure
🔵I’m unsure.
⚪️I’m probably not the best person to ask for that information.
🔴I’ve been wondering the same thing!
🔵I’m afraid. I have no idea
⚪️It could be one of many possibilities, I’ll look into it.
🔴It’s a mystery to me.
🔵It’s beyond me.
⚪️Let me check on that.
🔴Let me find out for you.
🔵Let me look that up for you.
⚪️Search me.
🔴That requires a bit more research first.
🔵That’s a really good question, I’ll check/ find out.
⚪️That’s not my area of expertise, I’ll ask …..
🔴That’s something I want you to find out for yourself!
🔵That’s exactly what I’m seeking to answer.
⚪️That’s good question, but I don’t know.
🔴That’s good question, I’ll check this.
🔵There are several possible answers, I’ll need more information first.
⚪️What do you suggest?
🔴What do you think?
🔵I’ll double check and let you know.


Key vocabulary:
1.▪️Off the top of my head (#idiom): If you give someone information off the top of your head, you do so from memory, without checking beforehand.
Examples

2.▪️Further: additional to what already exists or has been done.
Difference between “Further and Farther” and more confusing words

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*HOW TO BECOME A MEMORY MASTER*

What if I told you
that in a month from now,
you will be able to memorize
a pack of cards
by just looking at it once?
And that you will be able
to do that in under 5 minutes,
with a little bit of training.
What if I told you that
that is all the knowledge you need
to fundamentally understand
how your memory and your brain works?
That knowledge will then
help you in your everyday life,
when it comes to remembering
people's names,
commit important information to memory
and then do it as a presentation at work,
or if you're a school child and you
want to score perfectly on your exam.
What if I told you that this knowledge,
if implemented in schools,
would change the way
we see the school system,
not only in Sweden but in the whole world?
My name is Idriz Zogaj.
I'm a memory athlete.
I am not some kind of a superstar;
this is my alter ego.
Before the age of 25, I didn't know
anything of what I know today.
The interesting thing
about the age of 25 is
that at the age of 25
the brain becomes fully mature.
That is, you are a grown-up.
Before that I knew nothing.
I also finished
-- well, I knew a lot of things, but --
I also finished my university studies,
and I was thinking, what happens now?
What am I going to do with my life?
I've always been
very interested in traveling
and getting to know
other people, culture, etc.,
and that requires communication.
So, I was thinking,
okay, I like the challenge,
and I like to communicate with people,
so, I'm going to learn a language.
A new language.
Something completely different
from what I know now.
I know the Latin alphabet,
but I want to learn something
that I don't understand when I look at it,
like Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.
Even Hindi crossed my mind.
So, while I was looking at courses
that I could take at home,
because I was tired
of the university life,
I accidentally came across
a book on memory.
I was thinking that I wanted
to learn this new language
the way children do it, by practicing.
Going somewhere and talking to people,
and in that sense learning the language.
I sort of don't like grammar,
so this was my way of cheating away
the grammar studies.
I thought, if I am
going to do it that way,
I will become prepared.
So, I want to put a lot of words
and phrases into memory,
and then go to that country,
or that part of the world.
This book of memory was excellent.
Why not start to read it,
and then see what happens.
So, I ordered the book and started to read
and then realized it is apparently
all about techniques,
thinking in the right way.
It wasn't that difficult.
I was very picky with the language
I wanted to learn.
I was like, reading the book,
doing some exercises.
Several years went by
and I didn't find any language to select.
But in the meantime,
I was doing these exercises
and gradually getting better.
Another interesting thing about this book
was that at the last chapter,
this person talked about
that you can compete in memory.
I was thinking,
what, they have competitions in memory?!
This guy, Dominic O'Brien, had won
the World Memory Championship six times,
so he knew what he was talking about.
I was still, like, competing in memory!
I was looking at the levels
he suggested that you complete.
Then I realized, hold on!
During this training, I've actually
reached many of these levels.
So, I thought, OK,
I will focus a little bit more,
and that's when I started
to train the pack of cards,
and one of the levels was
to do it under five minutes.
In 2004, I felt ready.
At the age of 27, I went to
the World Memory Championships
in Manchester.
Why not think big, just go
to the World Memory Championships.
I came 22nd in the world.
I also became Sweden's best memory,
a title I would hold
for five consecutive years.
So, when I came back, my friends
were looking at me differently.
They were like, "When did you
become such a brain man?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, come on, you just went to the

World Memory Championships and
competed".
"Yes."
"So..."
"Yes, but I just read
these techniques and adapted them."
"You did?"
"And I don't feel different,
I mean, I'm the same."
"Really, but what do you do
at the World Memory Championships?"
"Well, we compete in memory."
"Such as.."
Well, every competition is 10 disciplines.
It can be numbers.
It can be binary digits:
one zero one one zero zero one one.
Very funny.
It can also be words.
It can be names and faces, people's names.
It can be historic dates.
Do you know that the world record
for memorizing historic dates
is about the same or even more
than all the dates you learned
throughout the school system,
including high school?
This guy does it in five minutes.
Imagine that, 12 years
compressed into five minutes.
I think it's easy if I show you.
They would take
a pack of cards, shuffle it.
Not the one that we had before;
it's shuffled.
They would give it to me,
and then while we're chatting
I would start,
and then after a while they ask me,
"Idriz, when are you going to start?"
Well, actually I'm already done.
"What do you mean?"
Take the cards, the pack,
and split it anyway you want.
This is Diamonds of 9.
What comes after Diamonds of 9?
What do you mean?
What is the card that comes
after Diamonds of 9?
Clubs of 2, right?
And what comes
after Clubs of 2? Hearts of 10.
And what comes after Hearts of 10?
Two Fives.
That's good.
One is Diamonds and one is Hearts.
I would say that one is Hearts.
"So, how do you do this?"
Well, it's just about adapting techniques,
and actually I think it's easy
if I show you with an exercise.
Look at these two images.
Do you see a connection between them?
I'll give you a hint,
there is no connection.
It's just two randomly picked pictures.
But here's what I want you to do.
I want you to make a fun,
vivid and animated story.
Use all your senses,
see how it looks like, feels like,
to connect these two images together.
And do it in 3D,
even though you don't have 3D-goggles.
Your brain is amazing,
it can do it anyway.
It's projected in 3D.
I'll give you a few seconds to do this.
Here's how I would see it.
Let's see at the order
of where you're sitting.
You look next to you and see a big snail.
It has a door on it. You open the door
because it says welcome.
I mean, you've never been
inside a snail cell.
You go in and say:
"Oh it's slimy in here, why they do that?"
Look at these two images.
OK, give you the same, make a story.
Let's take the stairs where I came up.
You see a flamingo
building a big brick wall.
We have to climb over it.
It's no point but --
And these three, what do you think?
We all know why elephants
-- because it is a big elephant --
you all know why they are strong:
they carry a lot of weight.
You see a big giraffe up on the screen
and the skier is like,
I'm going to go skiing
down the giraffe neck.
Look up on the roof.
The last one is a bit obvious, right?
Because you see a reptile,
and they like to be in the sun.
It's quite common, so you might think
that this is an obvious one.
This one I will remember.
That's a dangerous thing,
because obvious things we tend to forget.
I bet I could find people in this room
that don't remember
what they had for breakfast.
Maybe today was different
because you were going to TED,
so you had breakfast later or whatever.
But it's a common thing you do,
so it's easy to forget, not registered.
So, see the snake with big glasses,
a nice drink and enjoying
the sun on the roof.
And the drink is not spilling.
So, what did we just do?
Well, we let our brain have fun,
and when we did that
we focused on the task.
When we focus on the task,
we tell our brain that this is important:
remember this.
So, first we enforce
the power of remembering.
What is the brain?
The brain is a biological lump of neurons.
It contains about 3% of our body weight,
but consumes 20%
of our energy intake every day.
It doesn't matter
if you're sitting in the audience,
standing here talking
or

whatever you are doing.
It's about the same level
of energy consumption all the time.
So, it has a lot of neurons.
They like to connect to each other.
They can make tens
of thousands of connections.
This is also why we are all unique.
I mean, it's impossible to copy
or to make two identical brains.
So, we are all unique.
The stronger we make the connections,
the longer we will remember
the information.
So, we can make weak connections
and we forget them,
because that's a natural thing.
We always forget, that's a natural thing.
If you have a normal functioning brain,
it sorts out information
that is not important.
But you can tell it
what is important and what is not.
The stronger the connections you make,
the longer you will remember it.
With this knowledge, I would say
that today students study too much.
The reason why they do,
I could say that it's
because many students today,
don't know how to put
the information into their brain.
They study and study and study
and it becomes late.
They go to bed late and wake up tired.
Instead of putting
the information in their brain
in the way the brain likes to have it.
Then they can rest,
commit time to the hobbies,
spend time with their family,
and then do a repetition
of the information they learnt.
But if you don't know
that the information is there,
you don't trust your brain.
If you don't trust your brain,
you study all the time.
I will prove this to you
that your brain actually is better
than you might think yourself.
The exercise we did before,
I do with five-year-olds.
But then we use 30 pairs.
So, don't feel any pressure.
Look at this image!
There's something missing, right?
I bet your brain fills in the gaps.
So, if I say weight, you say?
(Audience) Elephant.
Thank you. And if I say bricks, you say?
(Audience) Flamingo.
And if I say the obvious one?
(Audience) Sun.
Thank you.
If I say door, you say?
(Audience) Snail.
And if I say ski?
(Audience) Giraffe.
And if I told you to give them to me
in the right order, as they came up,
what will you do?
You will close your eyes,
go to the first place,
go to the second place,
go to the third place,
the fourth place and the roof is last one.
Give them to me backwards.
You just go backwards.
This is what we do
at memory competitions.
Now you memorized 10 words.
That's one of the events,
to memorize words.
You can go to the competition and perform.
The only thing we do
is that we do it faster and longer.
It's very interesting to note
that the world record
for memorizing a pack of cards
by just looking at them once
as fast as possible,
is about the same time it takes
Usain Bolt to run 200 meters.
Think of that the next time
you watch the Olympics.
When he starts, you start,
and see how many cards you remember.
Now, I don't know Usain Bolt,
but I know the world record holder
for the cards, Simon Reinhard.
I know how much he trains.
I know he doesn't do anything different
from what we just did before.
He just structures the knowledge
that he puts them into his brain.
He looks at the information once,
and he knows it's fixed there.
It's all about having fun and letting
the brain make strong connections.
Then there's no limits.
I have a friend who comes and helps me
to organize the Swedish
Memory Championships every year.
If we would have a scale
here over the mat.
Here is a person
who has difficulty with memory.
Here is the normal memory,
here's where most people would be.
And here is where the geniuses are,
the super memories.
So, when she came first in 2009,
I contacted the [inaudible]
and told them, why don't we run
some tests, some memory tests on this,
because I like to work with a scientist
to show them what we could do.
Because there's not so much research
going on in this area.
The guy who did the research on her,
which is actually that guy,
Jacob Stohlman,
he said like, "Idrez, we have to redo
the scale because she's over there.
She's outside of our scale."
What she did is like way outside.
How can

you do this?
But you haven't studied what we do,
because it's like we would
invent a sport today,
and all of a sudden people are running,
"Oh, they're moving so fast."
But we're not doing anything else.
We're just working with the brain,
how the brain likes to work.
The techniques are very old.
The oldest one comes from the Greeks.
The ancient Greeks,
several thousand years ago.
So, we didn't invent anything,
we just packed it into this,
and it's the training that has done it.
And you can start your training
right here, right now.
The next time you hear
something you want to remember,
make a fun story of it,
and you will make strong connections.
So, happy practicing.
Thank you.
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*INFORMAL CONTRACTIONS LIST*

Want to = Wanna
Want a = Wanna
What have you = Whatcha
Kind of = Kinda
Sort of = Sorta
Out of = Outta
Give me – gimme
Let me – lemme
Tell them – tellem
Don’t know – dunno
Got a – gotta
Come on – c’mon
Some more – s’more
Should have – shoulda
Could have – coulda
Would have – woulda
Might have – mighta
Must have – musta
Couldn’t have – couldna
Shouldn’t have – shouldna
Wouldn’t have – wouldna
Don’t you – dontcha
Didn’t you – didntcha
Won’t you – wontcha
What are you – whatcha or watcha
Got you – gotcha
Bet you – betcha
Kind of – kinda
Out of – outta
Cup of – cuppa
Sort of – sorta
A lot of – a lotta
Got to – gotta
Going to – gonna
Need to – needa
Want to – wanna
Have to – hafta
Has to – hasta
Ought to – oughta

*INFORMAL CONTRACTIONS LIST*
*EXAMPLES*

What do you think? Whaddyu think?
What did you do with
it?
Whajoo do with it?
How did you like it? Howja like it?
When did you get it? When ju geddit?
Why did you take it? Whyju tay kit?
How is it going? Howzit going?
Don’t you get it? Doancha geddit?
Let me do. Lemme do.
Let’s give me your
heart.
Gimme your heart.
I should have told you. I shoulda told you.
I have got to go. I’ve gotta go.
I have got a book. I’ve gotta book.
Do you want to dance? Wanna dance?
Do you want a
banana?
Wanna banana?
Let me in. Lemme in.
Let me go. Lemme go.
I’II let you know. I’II letcha know.
Did you do it? Dija do it?
Not yet. Na chet.
I’II meet you later. I’II meechu layder.

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*IELTS /TOEFL Vocabulary:*


🔰 *Egregious* (adjective) = very bad and easily noticed

• The article contains a number of egregious errors.
• an egregious example of political bias
• egregious misconduct

🔰 *Allot* (verb) = to give someone (an amount of something) to use or have

▪️How much money has been allotted to us?
▪️How much money have we been allotted?
▪️Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
▪️The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.

🔰 *Surreptitiously* (adverb) = in a quick or secret way so that other people do not notice

▪️Martin glanced surreptitiously about him.
▪️He contacted her surreptitiously.
▪️Joe surreptitiously had a look in the answer book.
▪️an audiotape of the surreptitiously recorded conversation

🔰 *Plausible* (adjective) = (of an excuse or explanation) reasonable and likely to be true

• a plausible [=possible] conclusion
• a plausible excuse
• I thought her explanation was perfectly/entirely/completely plausible. [=I believed her explanation]
• The only plausible explanation is that he forgot.

🔰 *Exasperate* (verb) = to make (someone) very angry or annoyed

▪️The criticism of his latest movie is sure to exasperate his admirers.
▪️We were exasperated by the delays.
▪️Her moods exasperated him.

🔰 *Deplorable* (adjective) = very bad in a way that causes shock, fear, or disgust : deserving to be deplored

• The company has shown a deplorable lack of concern for the environment.
• children living in deplorable conditions
• deplorable ignorance

🔰 *Thrifty* (adjective) = managing or using money in a careful or wise way

▪️a thrifty family/shopper
▪️She has thrifty habits.
▪️He was brought up to be thrifty and never to get into debt.

Exceed something = to be greater than a particular number or amount

• The price will not exceed £100.
• The cost exceeded our estimate.
• The demand for new housing has already exceeded the supply.

🔰 *Marsupial* (noun) = any animal that carries its young in a pocket of skin on the mother's stomach. Kangaroos, koalas, and opossums are marsupials.

🔰 *Subtle* (adjective) = hard to notice or see : not obvious

▪️a subtle difference in meaning between the words
▪️subtle changes/variations
▪️The fragrance is a subtle blend of jasmine and sandalwood.
▪️She's been dropping subtle hints about what she'd like as a present.

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*IELTS /TOEFL Vocabulary:*


*Agog* (adjective) = full of interest or excitement because of something

• The news has chemists agog.
• Her supporters were agog at the idea.
• The town is agog over the plan.
• We were all agog with curiosity.

*Technique* (noun) = a way of doing something by using special knowledge or skill

▪️marketing techniques
▪️We learned some techniques for relieving stress.
▪️I used a special technique to make the bread.
▪️The artist combines different techniques in the same painting.
▪️Teachers learn various techniques for dealing with problem students.

*Ratify* (verb) = to make (a treaty, agreement, etc.) official by signing it or voting for it

• A number of countries have refused to ratify the treaty.
• The treaty was ratified by all the member states.

*Conscientious* (adjective) = very careful about doing what you are supposed to do : concerned with doing something correctly

▪️She has always been a very conscientious worker.
▪️He was conscientious about following the doctor's orders.
▪️a conscientious student

*Perilous* (adjective) = very dangerous

• a perilous adventure/journey
• a perilous journey across the mountains
• The climb was perilous.

*Inordinate* (adjective) = going beyond what is usual, normal, or proper

▪️I waited an inordinate amount of time.
▪️They have had an inordinate number of problems with the schedule.
▪️They spent an inordinate amount of time and money on the production.
▪️The strike has led to inordinate delays.

*Pester* (verb) = to annoy or bother (someone) in a repeated way

• His mother's always pestering him (with questions) about his love life.
• Leave me alone! Stop pestering me!

*Sophomore* (noun) = a student in the second year of high school or college

▪️She's a sophomore in high school.

*Namely* (adverb) = used to introduce more exact and detailed information about something that you have just mentioned

• We need to concentrate on our target audience, namely women aged between 20 and 30.
• She learned an important lesson from failing that exam, namely that nothing is ever certain.
• The disease can be prevented, namely by exercising, eating right, and not smoking.

*Reel* (verb) = to be very shocked, confused, and upset

▪️Still reeling from the death of her husband, she was now dealing with having to find a new job.
▪️I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My head reeled.
▪️I was still reeling from the shock.

*Query* (noun) = a question or a request for information about something

• Our assistants will be happy to answer your queries.
• If you have a query about your insurance policy, contact our customer service department.
• I have a query about my order.
• The librarian responded to my query.

*Embellish* (verb) =
1. to make something more beautiful by adding decorations to it; 2. to make a story more interesting by adding details that are not always true

▪️a book embellished with colorful illustrations
▪️He embellished the story with lots of dramatic detail.
▪️He embellished his speech with a few quotations.
▪️I didn't lie, I just embellished the story a little bit.

*Imperative* (adjective) = very important

• an imperative duty
• It is imperative that the public be informed about these dangers.
• It is imperative to inform the public about these dangers.
• It is absolutely imperative that we finish by next week.
• It is imperative to continue the treatment for at least two months.

*Accuracy* (noun) = the state of being exact or correct; the ability to do something skilfully ("skillfully" in US English) without making mistakes

▪️They questioned the accuracy of the information in the file.
▪️Candidates are judged on technical accuracy as well as artistic expression.
▪️Each experiment is performed twice to ensure accuracy.
▪️The police questioned the accuracy of his statement.
▪️He could not say with any accuracy what he had seen.

*Conceited* (adjective) = having too much pride in yourself and what you do

• a brilliant but conceited musician
• It's very conceited of you to assume that your work is always the b

est.

*Eminent* (adjective) = successful, well-known and respected

▪️an eminent physician
▪️an eminent architect
▪️an eminent historian

*Shirk* (verb) = to avoid work, duties, or responsibilities, especially if they are difficult or unpleasant

• If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will be much harder to deal with next month.
• I will not shirk from my obligations.
• He's too conscientious to shirk his duty/responsibility.
• They did their duty without shirking or complaining.

*Plight* (noun) = a difficult and sad situation

▪️the plight of the homeless
▪️The African elephant is in a desperate plight.
▪️The recent cut in funding will only contribute to the hospital's financial plight.

*Espouse* (verb) = to express support for (a cause, belief, etc.)

• Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
• The new theory has been espoused by many leading physicists.
• They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education.

*Stalemate* (noun) = a contest, dispute, competition, etc., in which neither side can gain an advantage or win

▪️ The budget debate ended in a stalemate.
▪️ The new agreement could break the stalemate.
▪️ The talks ended in a stalemate.


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💢 Nerves Of Steel

🎨 Meaning:-
🍃 If you have nerves of steel, you are very brave and not many things make you scared or nervous.

🎨 Usage:-
🍃 Those people who sing the national anthem before one of those big sporting events must have nerves of steel.

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🏠 *Just,  yet , still , ever and already*

*Grammar explanation*
We often use just, yet, still and already with the present perfect because they are related to the present moment.

🎳 *just*
Just used with the present perfect means 'a short time before'.

1. I've *just*  seen Susan coming out of the cinema.
2. Mike's *just*  called. Can you ring him back, please?
3. Have you *just*  taken my pen?!

Just comes between the auxiliary verb *(have/has)* and the past participle.

🎳 *yet*
Yet used with the present perfect means 'at any time up to now'. We use it to emphasise that we expect something to happen soon. Yet (in this context) is only used in negative sentences and questions.

1. Have you finished your homework *yet?*
2. I haven't finished it *yet.* I'll do it after dinner.
3. A. Where's Sam?
B: He hasn't arrived *yet.*

*Yet* comes at the end of the sentence or question.

🎳 *still*
Still used with the present perfect means that something hasn't happened. We use it to emphasise that we expected the thing to happen earlier. Still (in this context) is only used in negative sentences.

1. I've been waiting for an hour and the bus *still*  hasn't come.
2. They promised me that report yesterday but they *still*  haven't finished it.
3. She *still*  hasn't replied to my email. Maybe she's on holiday.

Still comes between the subject *(the bus, they, etc.)* and auxiliary verb *(haven't/hasn't).*

🎳 *already*
Already used with the present perfect means 'before now'. We use it to emphasise that something happened before something else or earlier than expected.

1. I've *already* spent my salary and it's two weeks before payday.
2 . He wanted to see Sudden Risk but I've *already* seen it.
3. The train's left *already!*

Already can come between the auxiliary and the main verb or at the end of the clause.

🎳 *Ever( advarb)  at any time ; all the time*

We use  *"ever"* in interrogative sentences:

a. Have you *ever*  been to the United States?
b. Have you *ever*  traveled by train?
c. Have you *ever*  failed a class?

*Used with adjectives*

1. The army is *ever*  ready."
_(ready)_

2. "I swear my mom is *ever*  present."
_(present)_

3. "We are visiting the *ever*  popular Rome."
_(popular)_

*Used with verbs:*

1. "I don't know if I can *ever*  forgive him."
_(forgive, forget)_

2. "How will I *ever* learn this?"
_(learn, memorize, remember)_

3. "I don't think this plan will ever succeed."
_(succeed, work)_

4. "That worked better than I *ever* imagined."
_(imagined, pictured, planned)_

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🌹Story of the day🌹

The Treasure


"A prince learned magic, with great effort, so that he could dig and find a treasure.

One day, with his magic, the prince found a treasure on the bank of the river Gianquadara, in Italy. He decided to dig the treasure out. For that the prince needed to make ten billion ants cross the river one by one, on a small boat made of half a shell of a nut.

The prince quickly found a nutshell. He also found an anthill with millions of ants inside it. The prince put one ant on the shell and made it across the river. Then he put the second, then the third and then the fourth.

What happened next? We can only know that when all the ants have finished crossing the river!


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